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During the outage, many users took to Twitter to complain about it under the hashtag #YouTubeDOWN. (Photo: Pixabay)

Google says issues affecting YouTube, Gmail, Google Cloud in US resolved

Google said it would conduct an investigation of the outage and make appropriate improvements.

03 Jun 2019 12:48 PM

'Consumption and time spent on our platforms does indeed increase,' said Ramez Shehadi, Facebook's managing director for Mideast and North Africa. (Photo:AP)

Data shows Ramadan in middle-east is for fasting, facebook and youtube

People in the Middle East spend close to 58 million more hours on Facebook during Ramadan and watch more YouTube videos.

29 May 2019 3:18 PM

"For the 2019 Indian Elections, Doordarshan is bringing inclusive live result experience to users on YouTube... Live audio news will be available on News on AIR YouTube Channel," Google said in a blogpost.

Google showing Indian elections across search, Assistant and YouTube

On YouTube, over 150 news channels are bringing live election results coverage through the day.

23 May 2019 10:46 AM

Third-parties using YouTube API services will also access the same public-facing counts you see on YouTube.

YouTube to change how subscriber count is shown

YouTube will start showing the abbreviated subscriber number for channels with more than 1,000 subscribers.

23 May 2019 10:18 AM

He has also learned the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), which is a universal way to transcribe the sound of any spoken language to know its pronunciation. (Photo: ANI)

Meet 8-yr-old boy from Chennai who can read and write over 106 languages

With the help of the internet, especially YouTube, Niall Thoguluva learned a plethora of languages.

21 May 2019 11:29 AM

According to Facebook's Ad Library Report, there were 1.21 lakh political ads with a total spending of more than Rs 26.5 crore between February and May 15 this year.

Political ad spend on Facebook, Google tops Rs 53 crore

Ad spend on Google, YouTube, and partner properties since February 19 stood at Rs 27.36 crore with 14,837 ads.

19 May 2019 2:47 PM

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is baffled to see why the US has not passed stronger gun laws yet. (Photo:AP)

'Don't understand America at all': Jacinda Ardern takes swipe at Washington

Jacinda Ardern announced bans on military styled semi-automatic weapons, high capacity magazines and rifles.

15 May 2019 9:52 AM

TV networks emerge as obstacles on YouTube's hunt for ads

Only 8 per cent of advertisers spent more on YouTube and less on the network properties.

14 May 2019 12:16 PM

Their analysis showed it was around 10Mt CO2e (Million Metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) - approximately that of a city the size of Glasgow.

Change in digital service design could reduce carbon footprint of digital services

Human-Computer Interaction researchers looked at how much electric energy was used to provide YouTube videos o people globally in 2016.

07 May 2019 1:02 PM

Austin Jones gets 10-years in jail. (Photo: Austin Jones/YouTube)

Former YouTube star gets 10 years in jail over child pornography

Jones, who had around 5540,000 subscribers and more than 20 million video views, used to make covers of songs.

06 May 2019 3:15 PM

YouTube stated in its official blog that only the new series will be available for free, while some of the premium content such as "Step Up: High Water," will continue to be behind the paywall.

YouTube to make original content free and ad-supported

The company has officially announced that the original series and specials will be available for free worldwide.

05 May 2019 11:32 AM

The YouTube has acknowledged that it's moving towards an ad-supported model for its Originals, and Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl said that all original programming moving forward will have an ad-supported window. (Photo: Pixabay)

YouTube Originals for free!

YouTube has not fully abandonedpaid subscriptions yet.

05 May 2019 2:36 AM

As part of his plea, Jones admitted to a total of six identified victims and approximately 30 attempts to persuade other girls to send him child pornography. (Photo:AP)

Youtube celeb gets 10 years jail for child pornography in US

YouTube musical celebrity was sentenced in a Chicago courtroom to 10 years in prison for making girls to produce sexually explicit videos.

04 May 2019 10:03 AM

In March, following the live-streaming on social media of a mass shooting in New Zealand, the chair of the US House Committee on Homeland Security urged the top executives of Google, Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Microsoft Corp do a better job of removing violent political content.

Google spends hundreds of millions of dollars on content review

Google disclosed in an April 24 letter made public that the manual review found 90,000 videos violated its terrorism policy.

03 May 2019 9:32 AM

The unveiling at a YouTube event for advertisers and media in New York offered the first glimpse at how the shift announced in November away from subscriber-only content will play out across the world.

YouTube touts first new original program under free strategy

New episodes of a handful of existing programs are likely to remain subscriber-only because of prior commitments.

03 May 2019 9:26 AM

Google’s advertising revenue, its key moneymaker, grew by 15 percent to $30.7 billion — slower than investors had hoped. Its digital-ad rivals Facebook and Amazon, meanwhile, both reported strong earnings last week, adding to the investor surprise when Alphabet stumbled despite a strong economy.

Slowing digital-ad growth could force change on Google

Investors pushed down the stock of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, more than 7% in after-hours trading on Monday.

30 Apr 2019 1:19 PM

Laplante posted the video of the PC, aptly called The Lasagna PC V.1 (probably there will be more in the making since this is just the first version).

YouTuber builds world's first pasta PC that works

The casing of the pasta PC is built entirely out of lasagna and rigatoni glued together.

23 Apr 2019 10:31 AM

Prajakta Koli at Kareena Kapoor Khan’s show

Twinkle, twinkle YouTube star

As the entertainment industry extends its sources, the video-sharing site has become the launchpad for the next generation of celebrities.

23 Apr 2019 12:00 AM

YouTube app will be available on Amazon Fire TV devices and Fire TV Edition smart TVs, as well as the Prime Video app for streaming to Chromecast and Chromecast built-in devices.

Soon the official YouTube on Fire TV, Prime Video on Chromecast

Prime members streaming to Chromecast and on Android TV devices will have unlimited access.

19 Apr 2019 12:40 PM

The fire, which at one point threatened the entire edifice, was extinguished Tuesday around 15 hours after it first broke out. (Photo:AP)

YouTube mistakenly links Notre-Dame fire to 9/11 attacks

The blaze erupted in the UNESCO world heritage landmark in the French capital on Monday.

16 Apr 2019 3:54 PM

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